Rees-Mogg should be offered a Ministerial post

No, we don’t believe that he should be the next Tory leader. But he would make a better Minister than some of those now in place.

Lewis Baston: Election gambles that worked. And those that failed – like May’s this year.

And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.

Barely a third of Conservative MPs were elected before Cameron’s leadership

Such a generational shift in peacetime is remarkable, and strengthens the case for a member of a recent intake to succeed the Prime Minister.

Lewis Baston: The election suggests that the tectonic plates of British politics are shifting

The shock over the overall result has distracted us from how remarkable some of each party’s gains really were.

Francis Maude: To win, we must modernise all over again

Detoxifying the Party never meant moving to the left – this year’s manifesto was well to the left economically of anything we advocated.

Richard Holden: How and why the LibDems went backwards in every English and Welsh seat they defended

With seven of their nine seats in England now held with majorities of less than eight per cent of the vote, the next election offers a chance to take them out for good.

The crucial difference between a non-win this month and the win in 2015 was the failure of the Tory machine

May won five per cent more of the vote than Cameron did two years ago. The margin between having a majority and not having one was performance in marginal seats.

Seven political myths that have been shattered by this election

Coalitions are the new normal…”banging on about Europe” is inherently unpopular…no-one will ever listen to the polls again.

May now has her chance to credibly warn that Sturgeon will prop up Corbyn

Remember when Tory strategists fretted about getting the public to believe Labour were a real risk? Problem solved.

Mackinlay, his agent, and a CCHQ official charged over election expenses allegations

The charges relate to the 2015 General Election campaign in South Thanet.

Lord Ashcroft: My election model’s probabilities currently suggest a potential Conservative majority of 142

Plus, we now present the different potential outcomes in each seat on a variety of turnouts.

James Frayne: Four manifesto ideas for the Conservatives which embody the ideals of this column

Over the last year, I’ve set out a number of policy ideas designed to appeal to lower middle class voters. Here are some of them.

Election expenses hashtag crusaders should have studied the facts before trying to trash MPs’ reputations

The letter of the law, and a previous case study, cautioned against implying an allegation was equal to guilt. But they ignored it.

Sunder Katwala: Will the Conservatives have more ethnic minority MPs than Labour after this election?

The Tories are making gradual rather than spectacular progress on ethnic diversity – as the party’s class of 2017 looks set to prove.

Dean Godson: Has May conquered class politics for the Conservatives?

Gender, race and sexuality dominated the early phases of Tory modernisation. The Prime Minister is now scaling the most challenging peak: class.